Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-11-24

inst south of Wooster. The village OF
Wooster was named from Gen. DAVID
Wooster, A Revolutionary General. IL
was laid out In the fall OF l6OS, oy the
proprietors, John Beaver, William
Henry, Larwill and Joseph II. Larweli.
IL was made the seat Of justice for tne
county, May 80, 1911. Previously tne
whole Of the present county had been
called Killbuek township, and con-
tanned. according to the census OF 1911.
only 800 inhabitants. AS in the case OF
Adams county, Wooster was not t1e
first county-seat displeased the people
of the county, and the result was Ine
Legislature appointed new CommiS-
sioners who located 1t at wooster. -
THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WESTERN
RESERVE. rm
Soon after the close Of the Revolu-
ton, our western county was dlVideu
into three Territories: The territory OF
the Mississippi, the territory North
west of the Ohio, and the territory soutn
of the Ohio. With the second OF these
we have been dealing. We have
noticed in detail the adjustment OF the
several claims to the Western Terri
tory. .c
In Nav, 1892, the Legislature OF Con-
necticut granted to those of her citizens
whose property had been burned or
otherwise spoliated by the British
during the Revolution, 5000, 600 acres
from the western end of the Reserve or
"New Connecticut" These were
called 1.-THE Fire Lands" in conse-
uuence
On the 5th day of September, 1875,
| Connecticut executed q deed to Jonn
Caldwell, Jonathan Brace and John
Morgan, Trustees for the Connecticut
Land Company, for 5000, 600 acres of
the Reserve, lying west of Pennsyl-
yauia, for ST 200, 900, or at the rate Of
forty cents on acre. The State gave
only a uuit-claim deed, transferring
only such title as she possessed anu anu
leaving all the remaining Indian tltIes
to the Reserve, to be extinguisneu py
the purchasers themselves. on the
same day that the trust deco was
made. articles of association were
signed by the proprietors, providing
for the government of the company
the management was intrusted 10 seven
directors. They decided to extinguish
the Indian title, and then to survey
their lands into townships five miles
square. .. s,.oo.ors
was made General Agent, Augustus
Porter. principal sur\ eyor, and Setn
ipease. astronomer and surveyor. TO
these were added four assistant sur,
vevors, a commissary, a physician, a, @ho
lthirty-seven other employees. Inls
little partv assembled at Schenectady,
| New York, in the spring OF 1870, anu
prepared for their expedition;
They assembled the Mohawk river ~
batteaux, and from the present city o.
Rome, took their boats and stores across
into Wood creek; passing down thal
stream. they crossed the Oneida laKei
thence down the Oswego to Lake
Ontario, coasting along the lake tc
Niagara; they reached Buffalo on tht
| nth of June, where they met "heo
Jacket.u and the principal chiefs OF the
Six Nations, and on the 23rd complet
ed a contract with those chiefs, bJ
which they purchased all the rights 0
the Indians to the lands on the reserve
for five hundred pounds, New 1oIt
currency, to be paid in goods to I'M
Western Indians, and two peer cat.l'
and 100 gallons of whisky to the Easter
Indians, besides gifts and provision
for all of them. Then, setting out iron
Buffalo on June 81, they coasted alonl
the shore of the lake some Of the part
: in the boats, and the rest marchln
along the banks.
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